Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney (current Green Party candidate for President of the United States) confronts Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs General Richard Myers–two military decision-makers who were somehow “out of the loop” until the Pentagon was struck on 9/11–regarding Pentagon contractor corruption, accounting “irregularities” and her query about those darned 9/11 wargames they seem to have forgotten to respond to.

Myers delivers an especially memorable performance as he claims–absent irony–that the wargames he vaguely acknowleges actually “enhanced the response” of NORAD to the hijackings of 9/11. For the record, the third and current official version of the “air defense” sequence of events: Alert F-15s from Otis are finally given the scramble order at 8:46 as AA11 impacts Tower One, flying first not to New York where they might intercept UA175 but to training area Whiskey 105 off Long Island, arriving over Manhattan at 9:25. F-16s from Langley scramble at 9:24, directed not to DC to protect the capital from AA77 but north over the Atlantic Ocean to intercept a “phantom” of AA11, 38 minutes after this aircraft ceased to exist. UA93 is never intercepted until it crashes at 10:03. That is the official version of the “enhanced response” of NORAD on 9/11.

http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a848myerslies#a848myerslies

Only an uppity “conspiracy theorist” would find that timeline or the responses of these honorable men inadequate.